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FSX Gold and Windows 8... Hopeless?

Hello all. This is my first post here so I hope you can help me. I have the FSX Gold Edition and, sadly, a computer with Windows 8. When I click to run FSX, instead of going to the main screen ( where you can choose your flight, aircraft and everything, like FS9 ), the thing load a flight over Puget Sound in the ultralight plane. If I left that without changes, the thing can run for hours. But when I choose to "End flight" and start to select the parameters for my desired flight, in less than one or two minutes the program stops working and close. Weird thing is, when I make the changes fast enough ( less tan 30 seconds, which is really hard ) and the program loads, then it runs perfectly fine for hours, but there are some times ( the vast majority of times ) when I just can't make the selections I want and just can't fly. It is soooo frustrating and anoying...

Rokinrobin, there are too many threads and no one gives me an answer. Do you know if that situation of the program loading a flight over Puget Sound in the ultralight is normal ? Is that how it works for others? Why Microsoft did that when the main screen where you make the selections for the flight is the logical default start?? Apparently all the people can load the program, make the selections,and then have problems during the flight, a different situation compared with mine, once I can load the flight parameters the program runs fine for hours ( I never had a flight interrupted ).... but my nightmare is before loading... I did a lot of reading, and to be honest it's a little confusing sometimes.... some people says "try uiautomationcore.dll, that will fix everything", and then, other member says "DON'T USE UIAUTOMATIONCORE, IT WILL CRASH THE PROGRAM".... I had ( Little ) hope of someone telling me something like "change the iniconfig file, in the first line change from demoflight to mainscreen" as a solution, but I guess is not so easy.....
Thanks and Best Regards!!

In File Explorer navigate to C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX and open the FSX.cfg in Notepad.

Find the following lines...

[STARTUP]
DEMO=0
SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=1

If SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=1 is set to =0, change it to =1 and save.

That folder will be hidden by default so first you will have to go to Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab and check "Show hidden files and folders".

While you are there uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types".

peace,
the Bean

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or you can go in the sim to Options>Settings>General and put a check in "Show opening screen". Much easier.
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Sir.... YOU ARE MY HERO !!!! I did what you said, and now it is working PERFECTLY FINE. MANY, MANY THANKS.

738SCFA

Oh by the way, the way that correct the problem is the "long" way, making changes in the FSX.cfg and saving.... Clicking the "Show Opening screen" in the Options/settings/general didn't work.

Thanks again, and thanks to all the people who makes this site possible, this hobby is really popular among teens and younger people, but is also a relief valve ( for the all-day tensions ) for many "older" people like me ( I'm 40 y.o. ). In fact, my wife is also happy I will fly again, she reeeeally appreciates the 4 or 5 hours a leave her alone while I'm flying every week !!!